On Oct 4, 10:09 pm, Konrad Meyer <kon... / tylerc.org> wrote:
> Quoth Filipe:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I'm looking for a simple webserver that could handle basic requests
> > (mostly from a localhost) outputing html files. It should also be able
> > to get the input from forms. Rails seems too powerful to perform such
> > a simple class.
>
> > Sorry if this sounds confusing. I'm a newcomer to the ruby language.
>
> Look into WEBrick / GServer.
>
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> Konrad Meyer <kon... / tylerc.org>http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/
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#!/bin/env ruby
require 'webrick'
include WEBrick

s = HTTPServer.new(
  :Port            => 2000,
  :DocumentRoot    => Dir::pwd
)

trap("INT"){ s.shutdown }
s.start

Run that in a directory with html files.  That will serve them up for
ya, then go from there.

If you want a small mvc pattern, then check out camping.  A little
more in-depth but smaller than rails is merb.  I prefer merb myself.